Category: Politics

“Had to joke, not to quarrel” “B” knew about the secret telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko. As reported by “Kommersant” informed sources in Moscow and Kiev, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko continues to talk on the phone — although at the official level representatives of the two countries exchanged tough accusations and Russia in Kiev declared “an aggressor state”. According to “Kommersant”, the last such conversation took place in the first half of April and was devoted to the situation in the Donbass. The conversation lasted about 20 minutes and was held at the initiative of the Ukrainian side. As told the interlocutor of Kommersant in Moscow, the conversation took place in “the respectful and correct way” and the heads of state are periodically “switched to playfully ironic tone”. “The presidents were forced to joke, not to quarrel and not to

That had trump in 100 days The President of the United States Donald trump boasted that his administration has achieved incredible success. Let’s try to put his statements in context. Presidential decrees To carry out part of their campaign promises Donald trump shortly after taking office resorted to direct presidential directives. He ordered to stop the process of ratifying the TRANS-Pacific partnership and reduce the number of regulatory standards for business. In General, the trump issue decrees about the same speed as Barack Obama, but on 21 April he signed more than his predecessor. Approval ratings When Donald trump was sworn in on 20 January, his approval rating was at the lowest level among all presidents on inauguration day. Trump called the data loaded, but all the power of rejection of his person part of the community was demonstrated when hundreds of thousands of his opponents took part in meetings

The Parliament of Montenegro adopted the law on accession to NATO BELGRADE, 28 APR — RIA Novosti. The Parliament of Montenegro at a meeting in Cetinje on Friday ratified the law on accession to NATO. For this decision voted 46 deputies from 81. Stream meeting was conducted on national television. Those present, among whom were the President Filip vujanović and former Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, met with applause the outcome of the vote. Before the vote, a rationale for joining the Alliance was made by acting head of the government, Dusko Markovic, also their opinions about the importance of North Atlantic integration about the same words, shared many inscribed to members. In a document titled the Draft law on confirmation of the North Atlantic Treaty and the Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the accession of Greece and Turkey voted members of the ruling Democratic party of socialists and

Photo: TASS The first meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and new French President elected in may, could take place in July at the summit of “twenty” in Germany. This was reported by press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. “Of course, possible (the meeting of Putin with the new President of France at the summit), he would be there,” – said Peskov reporters. A Kremlin spokesman added that the concrete elaboration of bilateral meetings with Putin, other leaders on the sidelines of this summit is not conducted.

First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Frants Klintsevich © Valery sharifulin/TASS MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. Montenegro will not benefit from NATO membership, as it will be dragged into a global confrontation that did not need the peace-loving people of this country. This opinion was expressed by TASS first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Franz Klintsevich, commenting on the adoption by the Parliament of Montenegro decision on membership in the Alliance. The Senator noted that the decision was expected. “Our negative attitude to it (decision) is known. And it’s not just that it affects the interests of Russia. NATO membership is not necessary first of all Montenegro is a peaceful, friendly, quite quiet. This nation would somehow be involved in global opposition, and from this he obviously will not win,” – said Klintsevich. “I’m afraid that it might change

The deputies proposed to prohibit the sale of alcohol to 21 years The state Duma has again proposed to ban the sale of alcohol to 21 years. This time under the ban can get beverages of a strength of more than 18% Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad region proposed to ban sale of alcohol strength of more than 18% of persons under the age of 21. The bill they introduced in the state Duma. Now Russia has a law that prohibits selling alcohol to 18 years. The seller may request the identity document to confirm the age of the customer. “However, as shown by sociological and psychological study, 18-year-old young people are not able to make an informed decision in the matter of alcohol consumption, many of them use alcohol products under the influence of their peers, without thinking about the negative consequences”, — stated in the

WikiLeaks has published the next part of the confidential CIA documents MOSCOW, 28 APR — RIA Novosti. WikiLeaks has published a new part of a package of secret documents called Vault 7 belonging to the Central intelligence Agency (CIA). The previous part indicated as the “Weeping angel”, was released on April 21. The website reports that the new publication contains documentation and source code for a project of the CIA, is designated as “Writing” (Scribbles). According to the website, the project represents a system of pre-processing, which embeds the objects to track user interactions within the documents which can be stolen by foreign intelligence agents. It is reported that the CIA project designed for offline processing of Microsoft Office documents. Published CIA documents dated March 1, 2016 and classified until 2066. WikiLeaks has published the first part of a package of documents of the CIA on March 7, it was

The UN special Rapporteur assessed the damage countries from sanctions against Russia Moscow. April 28. INTERFAX.RU — Financial losses of the countries that imposed anti-Russian sanctions, is approximately two times higher than Russia’s losses from these measures. Such data was presented by the UN special Rapporteur on the question of negative effects of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights Idriss jazaïry. “The loss of the countries that have imposed sanctions amount to more than $ 100 billion. If we add to this the losses suffered by Russia as a result of sanctions, a very approximate estimation, which can be applied, is that Russia has lost 1% of GDP,” said Jazairi at a press conference at Central office “Interfax”. “When calculating the total losses of the Russian Federation is estimated at 52-55 billion. We can say that this is the price you had to pay for the Ukrainian

Photo: RIA Novosti The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov will take part in the meeting of foreign Ministers of the Arctic Council. This was during the weekly briefing said the official representative of the MFA of Russia Maria Zakharova. It is noted that the meeting will be held may 10-11 in Alaska. In addition, she said that Lavrov may 4, will visit Finland.

Photo: RIA Novosti The official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova criticized the refusal of the members of staff of the candidate in presidents of France Emmanuel Makron accreditation of Russian journalists, RIA “Novosti”. “Given the fact that other foreign media are obstacles not experienced, consider data restrictive measures as a deliberate and blatant discrimination of the Russian media on the part of the candidate state, which has historically been on guard of freedom of speech,” she said. Zakharova also urged to pay attention to this incident, representatives of specialized international organizations and the competent authorities of France as a violation of the rights of the media during presidential elections. Earlier it was reported that experts on cyber security have uncovered evidence pointing to possible involvement of the Russian hacker groups for attacks on members of the election campaign of Emmanuel Macron.